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Homicides Last 12 months 47 Through
February 04
Average Homicides 2019 to 2021 44
Per year
Homicide Rate Last 12 months 16.5
Per 100,000 people
Average Homicide Rate 2019 to 2021 15.5
Per 100,000 people
Homicides over the last 12 months are trending up 4.4%
compared to 2021, according to the latest data available from the Durham
Police Department.
However, the murder rate over the last 12 months is up 6%
compared to the annual average over the last three years, and the
frequency of killings remains higher than it was before the
pandemic.
The city averaged 4 homicides a month over the last year. In
2019, that number was 3 per month.
One way to think about the danger: three years ago, the murder rate was
13.3 per 100,000 residents. During the pandemic, a person’s
chance of being murdered in Durham has risen to almost the same risk of
being killed in a fatal traffic crash and it’s now higher than the risk
of dying of the flu or pneumonia in North Carolina.
The risk is not the same neighborhood to neighborhood.
ABC11’s data team looked at the Durham Police Department’s data by
neighborhood from 2019 through February 04, 2023.
A closer look at homicides by police district
The map color-codes each neighborhood by the homicide rate over the
last 12 months. The three darker blues highlight neighborhoods where the
murder rate is higher than the citywide rate.
You can click any neighborhood to see detailed numbers or the buttons
at the bottom of the map to switch between numbers and rates.
You can search for a street, place, landmark or zip code to zoom to
that location.